Intimation.
WM. POWELL;
LTD.,
ALEXANDRA.
BUILDINGS,
Des Faux Road,
DAINTY
MUSLINS,
LAWNS,
and
ZEPHYRS.
also
HOLLANDS
MATS
and
LINENS
for.
SUMMER
GOWNS.
FIRST-CLASS
DRESSMAKING
Our charges for
MAKING
WASHING
DRESSES
are
VERY MODERÁTE,
Wm. POWELL, Ld.,' High Class
“Costumiera, Millinera, “aud
Furnishers;
Alexandra Buildings,
HONGKONG,
Hongkong, 6th July roof
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Intimations.
K. A. J. CHOTIRMALL & CO., 8, D'AQUILAR STREET.
NEWLY OFINED SILK STORĘ,
Indian, Chinese and
COMPENSATION.
(Mr. Chiozza Money, M., proposes to tax bachelors.)
Of woes so great my sam, With grief I'm stricken dumb, My way of life is strewn with dangers: Of bills, rates, even little strangers,
The cry is Still they como!"
“And whensoe'er 1 mix
With graceless Benedicks
Japanese Silk Goods. Some ribald, from among them chucklinge
Just Arrived
SOCKS (Linen) LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S.
GENTLEMEN'S SILK UMBRELLAS. SILK KIMONOS, LADIES' BLOUSES AND SHAWLS.
SANDALWOOD) BOXES (INLAID). HANDKE CHIFF BOXES, GLOVE BOXES.
السلام
MONEY BOXES, &c. LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, JAVA
-ERONGS.
: น
MANDARIN COATS, COTTON
SHIRTS.
SILK LACE SCARFS AND SHAWI S.
Prices exceptionally cheap. Inspection earnestly solicited. Hinh 24h Máy ngu
Aki, "How's the latest babe and suckling!
Does that make five or six?”
But now .cociciva Fate Threatens the single state: Get his, my Money! make the maxim Of our stern State to tax and tax hin
For being celibate.
||
Though neler of this I dreanit, Vain will be his attempl
To fly the tyrant tax collector, The while 1 nuse, in peace unchecked, o'er
That blessed word "exempt."
-Pall Mall Gazette.
BEKBYOGRAPHY,
HOW I SAW THE CROWD OF CROWDS.
1
every
ome things beggar description. Other things beggared by description. The Darby is both. It beggars description, and description bergets it.
very year accans of ink wash over continents of paper very description of the Derby
like
other description. It is fixed by tradition, like the matriage civice. Flest Street is the must conservative highway in the world. It likes to file events for jeference. Somewhere in the misty pak o jounalist saw the Derby. Perhaps it was in 178 that the first article was written about the [530 Best Derby. With awe anlute the nameless
creator of the Derby legends
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILD. INGS ORDINANCE COMMISSION.
TAKE
AKE NOTICE that a Commission h 5 been appointed to enquire into and report on the following malters, viz. -
Stil, 178 is a longt we are, and it occurred to me that after a hundred and twenty-six yours Fleet Street might "sately take another nak at the Derby. 1 is barely possible that there may be some change since Diomed's year. So I go to compare the legend with the reality.,
Whether the administration of the San | tory and Heilding Regulatins enacted by ite Public Health and tuildings Ordin-les ance, 19, as new carried out is satisfac tary, and, if not, what improvements can be made.
2. Whether any ungalanty or corruption exists or has existed among the officials, charged with the administration of the aforesaid Regulation.
The Commission carnestly invite the n babitants of Hongkong and Kowloon to co-operate with them by forwarding any com plaint they may have to make di aufgeston to ffer in connection with, the matters afores id in the Undersigned,
herd's
SADNESS AND SILENCE. From Epsom Town I walk a mile along a leafy road The sky is a blue bowl filled with sunlight in the brim The chestnuts, have lit their candelabra. The fields wear green mań- embroidered with buttercup gald. The bawilions glimmer in rose and ivory. Shep-
Clocks
shake their filmy beads, Between the hedgerows drifts a blue wisp of petrol, wreathing delicately sound the cool pale green lears of lime and elm. The white ribbon of road is doned with sad and silent travellers. Sadoess and silence on foot. Sad- ness and silence on bicycles, Sadness and silence in vehicles. No smiles. No songs, No joy. We are like dejected ants. We crawl.
SATURDAY JULY
in many colored jackets, whips rising and filling, a rapid ruba-dub of hooves drum ning on the hard turf, fragments of acil tossed in the. air, and all is over, 1 is instantaneous. 1-can compare it only to a handful of peas thrown against a window pane Thep the crowd magically submerges the course, and the long “green avenue, is blotted out once more.
7, 1906.
Entinations.
DONE BY TRYING.
Nobody can tell what he can do till he tries When a thine quetit to be done the modern anirle moves us in keen working away at i unit is done In the face of this ides the Himanreibla "vanishes. Where there's a will there's a way "If we could but rat cod liver it of it sickening taste and smell and then combine it with two or three other ingredients we should nogires the best remedy in the world! for certain diseases that are now practically incurable Sn said a famous English phvji. "But it will never in twenty-five years ago
The dramatic tension during the race is torrible. I feel it like a kind of concentrated I am impassive. I do not care which agony, horne wine. But the pastion of the crowd grips
The my
heart like A vice. communion of salnie is nothing to the communion of sinnert, I an hypnotized by a monster with five hundred thousand brains all thinking
the same thought. Suddenly the monster dissolves. It is the most enot
enormous undulation
of life that this until the passionate planel can achieve Judgment Day. Through it all the calm tethered horses eat their oats or Crop the he done? be added. "You can no more turn trampled herbage, infants sleep, the windend liver oil into a pleasant palatable medicine blows, and the sun shines,
One picture out of myriads remains stamped on my memory. Two grinning buc niggers are being posed by an itinerant photo- „grapher. “That's a sight, "maya an American, you couldn't see in the States:" "Why?" *Wal, no white man in my country would photograph a nigger."-James Douglas in Morning Leader.
Notice of Firni.
NOTICE.
have day' authorized Mr. HANS
than you can turn the Codfish itself into a Bird of Paradise," Yet he lived to admit that in
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION the "imponible" had been accomplished. It is paintable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers. combined with the Compound Serun of Rypophosphites, Extracts of, Malt and Wild Cherry. This remedy is freed from the bad peculiarities Dr. Frothingham so detested, and it is precisely the splendid medicine he wishbed for. Use.it freely and confidently for Anemia
WIEBS to Sign our firm Per Pro Hysteria, Wasting Complaints, Blood Impuri
curation.
Hongkong, rst July, 1906,
Co Let.
ties, Asthma, and Throat and Lung Troubles, SIEMSSEN & Co. Dr. W: H. B. Aikian, F. R. C. P., London,- [691 M., Victoria University.-M. B.. Toronto University,Consulting Physician in Honie for Incurables, Physician to Toronto General Hospital, es: Fam much pleased to state that the results from using Wampole's Preparation of Col Liver Oil have been uniformly antisfactory: it appealed to me as being prepared' according to correct scien. NO WEST END TERRACE
tific principles." It increases the appelite and THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST, influences the diges of fond; it is delicious to take, will not disappoint you and is effective MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
from the first dose. It represents the dawn [703 Hongkong, 5th July, 1905.
of progress." At chemists everywhere.
14
H
SHAMEEN, CANTON.
TO LET.
..
Apply to-
TO LET.
THE
PEAK
AYTOR,"
Immediate Possession. OFFICES in KINO'S BUILDING and
YORK BUILDING. GODOWNS on PRAYA EAST.
A HOUSE in CLIPTON GARDENS, CÃO-
duit Road,
A HOUSE in RITON TERRACE, FLATS in MORTON TriRACE.
Apply to-
THE JUNGRobe Ly NVENIN
HENT & AGENCY CO, LO Hongkong, 1st June, roof.
Apply to
Now the road Jeans like a a ladder against the the sky, and mounting the last rang we see the skits of the Lawns. They are frayed and No. Undergird They are crusted. and caked with splashes of human mod and mire. Woeful. men are selling erect cards, bananas, and tum. biers of green tonics.
A sleepy child sit wearily beside a basket of cocoanuts. The verdmnus mystery of the Paddock sheds a Ineath of cim von nce over the tortured chaos
Any per on examined as, a witness to the enquity aforesaid who in the uphony of the Commissione makes a full and rue discle sure touching all the matters in respect of which he is examined will receive a certificate from the Commission which will protect the wilne s against any civil or criminal proceed.of motors, coaches, brakes, buses and norde
ugs which may be in luted against such script vehicles struggling up the hill. witness in respect of any marter touching which he has been examined.
By Order,
W. HOWEN-ROWLANDS,
reciony.
Hongkong, fil July, pub.
NOTICE
[70)
7.biereby beg to notify our Customers W
that WE CANNOT ACCEPT MORE TWO DOLLARS in Subsidiary PILAN Loins in paymers if your acc-unis AND OUR SHROFFS HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED THIS TO ADHERE STRICKLY TO RULE.
Passing a furld Lovers, postered to the chimneys with liquorish appeals, 1 dari through the train of tired horses and tired men, and suddenly the Racecourse life itself op saim mingly before my eyes like an apparition. The blue of the sky is pimpled with kites oppse. ing adverti scrolls. It is like a festival. The green turf is blotted out for miles, by a multitude that no man could num. bi r.
·Far The earth is clothed with men.
15.
TO LET KNUTSFORD KOWLOON.
77
7
CURTIS BROS. CASESUGAMING MACHINERY ARRIVEDIHONG- KONG PER S. S. "EŠANG."
FROM CHEFOO, 21 JULY, 1905. CONSIGNED TO MESSRS. E. H. MURRAY & CO.
OTICE is hereby given that the above
Godowns of the Undersigned, will be SOLD
by PUBLIC AUCTION by Mears, HUGHES
Intimations,
THE POPULAR
SCOTCH
IS
"BLACK&WHITE"
JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.. SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS. » By Appointment to
AM. THE KING
and
HTH, the PRINCE of WALES
Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS and HOTELS, and to be obtained from
[5# the principal Stores.
TUBORG
BEER.
FIRST CLAS PILSENER BEER
HOUGH, at their Auction Rooms in Ice A guaranteed free frons Salicylic acid, House Street, nt 11 A.M. on FRIDAY, 13th | and any other Chemicals.
July, 196, unless the same are previously TERRACE, faken delivery of by Consignees, and the
charges incuried paid.
PRICE $10.50 per case ni 48 bottles (quarts) or 6 doz. pluts.
Special Prices fur Quantities.
Sole Agents
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
[74
Hongkong, 29th June, 1906,
General Managers,.
Indo-China S. N. Co., Ltd. (684
SIEMSSEN & 00.
Hongkong, raih January, 1903,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Blangkong, 30th December, 1905.
TO LET.
No. 16, HOLLYWOOD
2. OLD BAILEY. Apply to--
ROAD,
and HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAMWAYS
COMPANY, LIMITED.
is hereby given that an EXTRA.
ARRATOON V. APCAR & CONTINARY GENERAL MEETING
[694
45. Wyndham Street. Hongkong, and July, roof,
TO LET. GODOWNS at East Point, close away on the sky line I can see trees. Bus The Water, suitable for the storage of inside the circle of sky I cannot see enough any Cargo. turf to serve a latk.
The ingvement of life 'here is almost in werably Buge.. ks lugeness is deepened by its disorder. The crowd is not like an army. Ji bas na coherence. It in like a flat mouster that is eating itself, chewing itself, licking itself, twin- [697g itself, turning itself inside out and outside
It is horribly formless and shapeless.. There is nothing so inhuman as humanity.
DKASS MEN.
A. S. WATSON & D., LD Hongkong, 3rd July, 19:6
NOTICE,
The notify the public th
(A),Ye Sunşimary CHINESE OF JAPANESE COINS can be accepted in payment l as Counts due to the Company, and
"HE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO.
(B) ONGKONG COINS can only be accepted
in Bounts of $1 or under.
GEORGE CURRY,
Hongkong, 27th june, 1936,
Local Secretary,
[676
COLD STORAGE.
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, THE NGA DO 40,00 Cubic feet of COLD STORAGE available at EAST POINT.
Stores will be Open at 10 A.M. and 4' P. M daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
WM. PARLANE,
Manager,
fangkeng, 22nd June, Foot
F
BLACKHEAD & CO.
JAR CHANDI EKS, SAILALAKER COAL AND PROVISION MER CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTOR AND GENERAL COMMISSION
AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR,
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING,
HONGKONG,
·SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURER',
SOLE AGENTS FOR ARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINI HACOMPOSITION RED HANI BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY EVENT
DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES,
RC..
AL*..
Sole Agents für TERGUSON'S=5FUGA}¬CRE¬M-
and
P. & O. SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTUR WHISKY, &C.
·
Floor Area 6,100 square feet each. Apply to
of the above-named Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Alex- andra Buildinga,
or SATURDAY, the Victoria, Hongkong, x-Road Central, to 14th day of July, 1906, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of passing the following Resolu.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
[147 Hongkong, 20th January, 1906.
For Sale.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED,
PORTLAND CEMENT .
ex Factory.
In Bags of ago ths. nel $2.80 per Rug ex Factory,
Before I po mad with man, I:plunge into the mass, and gare at its corpuscles and particles. The bookmakers are like bell-booys in a rag. ing sea. Found then the crowd breaks in foam and spray they alone retain their personality. The other are merged in each other. Their In Casks of 375 Dr. net $4.75 per Cask fices are like the round aes in the key.. plan of a coronation picture. But the book. wakens are the Supermen. They strive to emphasise their isolation. They wear gentesque garments, val uniformis, white beaver top hats, long white coats, broad leathern scarves stu 'ded with glittering coins, tennis flannels. On their satchels are polished brass name. plates Brass name-plates are fixed oo their hatbands. Indeed, the bookmaker is all brass. He has a brasa face and a brass voice, I hear
*Na-aa-u+ow1"
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hongkong, 30th September, 1975.
MUTTON AND BEEF. Undersigned is prepared to SUPPLY
Maderaic Prices.
tions pursuant to the Order dated the 28th day of March, 1905, made by the Supreme Court of Hongkong In its Original Jurisdiction in Action No. 371 of 1905.
t
That the Special Resolution being the Fourth in Number passed and confirmed at Extraordinary General Meetings of this Company held on the 3rd and zoih days of June, rgos, respectively, together with all Agreements entered into there. under and particularly the Agreement in writing bearing date the 18th day of 1905, made between this October, Company and its Liquidators (John D. Humphreys & Son) of the one part and the Peak Tramways Company, Limited, of the other part ba and the same are hereby rescinded.
THE WINE GROWERS
SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co.,
General Agent, itagkong..
Grenadine
2. That the Draft Agreement submitted to this Meeling and expressed to be made between this Gompany and its Liquida lors of the one part and the "Peak Tramways Company, Limited," of the
ther part be and the same is hereby Gum approved and that the said Liquidators be and they are hereby authorised pursuant to Sections 01 and 202 of the panies Ordinance 1855 to enter into an Agreement with the said "Peak Train Raspberry ways Company, L'nited," in the terms of the said Draft and to carry the same ,into effect with such (if any) modifica. tion as they may think expedient. Should the above Resolutions be passed by the requisite majority they will be submitted for confirmation Special Resolutions to a (561
Second Extraordinary General Meeting which Vinegar will be subsequently convened.
hina say "No 1" in a lone that is like the cough TFRESH MUTTON and BEEF, AL of an iron foundry ai
can
TUNG WING,
The crowd contains all human contrasts Should patrons find any Meat supplied oot the ath of wealth and the ath of poverty, to be fresh, full price will be refunded on the between between the unemployables on the grand stand | return of the Meat to the Stall. and the unemployables on the bare ground! Over the clock under the royal standard 1 see the King's white heard. “At my elbow is a grimy boy yelling in' end sing-song. Kacmadayshun," "But the livery of Lazarca is dit rather than rags. I see nobody without I mest no mendicants." - Even the scum boots. of the scum are clothed. Most of them are The food of
democracy is dreadful,
| smoking or caling of suggest the horrors of "The Jungle Baskets of fivid pastry sweat in the dusty sun, Hard-boiled eggs are popular. So are acid drops
ma
The amusementa are few and dull. There are boxers with cornets and wooden ratiles, swings, roundabouts try your strength Chines, cocoanut shics, games of chance, such as the crown and feather, Tipsters and card sharpers tout desperately for clients. But as a ritie the crowd is listless, melancholy, and sub dued. There are few costers. I see only one Ritl in crimson satin "Are we downhearted!" No is the only catchword of the "Bill Bailey" and day. There is no folksong
The Old Bull and Bush" still await their
used
saccessors.
THE COMMUNION OF SINNER). The roar of the crowd is an amorphous dir, stabbed by the chang of a bolt, the blast-of- bugle, the whine of a concertina, or the hoarsa howl of the bookie." "There is a strange silence before the Derby, then a strangled bum floats over the hill. On one of the stands Isco a gesture-an arm is silhouetted agafost the sky. Then the horses flash along the ridge like Valkyries-Aash and fade. The far ham deepens into a sonorous tumult, I am jammed against the
beads mint "jumbled tangle of horses with Islow and sacks outstretched, violent pleinier
EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK
AT
REASONABLE PRICES. Hongkong, 7th March, #gog,
No. Stall, Central Market. Hongkong, 14th May, 1906, FOR SALE
WET.SOACH'S
IN-DOOR & OUT.DOOR 4.LIOT GAS LAMPS
ARC
Du. BOXED
LIGHTS. Do. HARP
LAMPS. Do. MAN- TLES, CHIM-
NEYS, GLO. DES, SHA. DES,&C. &C, and INCAN DESCENT GASOLINE of all descriptions from
best
makers,
NAFITHA Of tho
test kind for GASO
·LINE LAMPS and GASO. EN- LINE GINES, kept In stock.
TAI KHONG GI
109, Des Vœux Road Centrál, Hongkong, 3rd July, 1906. »
139
JOHN D, HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Manager.
Dated and July, 1906,
.[693
| A. CHAZALON & CO.
JUST UNPACKED.
NEW Consignment of the following :- A
4
ANCHOVY (Norwegian) in Kogs.
SALMON BELLIBB SALTED HERRINGS
"
"
1/
11
11
11
12
MACKAKELS GERMAN SAUSAGES in Tin (Assorted),
in Skins.
#
ABPARAQUE.
VEGETABLES (Assorted).
FRENCH FRUITS IN SYRUP (Aported),
STUFFED OLIVES.
"
ANCHOVY IN OIL (Boullers).
ALBO
PASCALL'S ABSORTED SWEETS and TOYYEES,
Hongkong, 17th May, too.
Lemons
SYRUPS.
Red Currant
Lime
p.c.qu. pc.pls. p.bt.q. p.bt.p. $150 $17.00 $1.50 $0.75
Lime Juice Cordial...88 p, c. 1 doz. #1 p/bot.
MINERAL WATERS.
:
Arima "Teppo"
................p. č. 4 doz, §5.00
+8
FI
7,00
Hirano, "Peacock "..............
4 Ji 5.50
8
SALON BE
步臯 7.50
M
ور
Couran, Source Bertrand.....(60 bottles) 18.00
Vichy, Source St. Louis .....(50-19 ) 10,00
BARRETTO & Co., Agents,
Nos, 21 & 24, Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central,
161
Bangkong 4th July, 1906:
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